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View article: Hydrazine‐Mediated Thermally Assisted Photocatalytic Ammonia Decomposition Over Layered Protonated Perovskites
Hydrazine‐Mediated Thermally Assisted Photocatalytic Ammonia Decomposition Over Layered Protonated Perovskites Open
Photocatalytic ammonia decomposition offers a sustainable route for hydrogen production, but its development is limited by low catalytic efficiency and poorly understood mechanisms. Here, a protonated layered perovskite, HPrNb 2 O 7 (HPNO)…
View article: Harnessing Solar Energy for Ammonia Synthesis from Nitrogen and Seawater Using Oxynitride Semiconductors
Harnessing Solar Energy for Ammonia Synthesis from Nitrogen and Seawater Using Oxynitride Semiconductors Open
Green ammonia evolution by photocatalytic means has gained significant attention over recent decades, however, the energy conversion efficiency remains unsatisfactory, and deep mechanistic insights are absent. Here in this work, this chall…
View article: Active nitrogen sites on nitrogen doped carbon for highly efficient associative ammonia decomposition
Active nitrogen sites on nitrogen doped carbon for highly efficient associative ammonia decomposition Open
Nitrogen doped carbon materials have been studied as catalyst support for ammonia decomposition. There are 4 different types of nitrogen environments (graphitic, pyrrolic, pyridinic and nitrogen oxide) on the amorphous support identified. …
View article: Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition
Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition Open
Ammonia is regarded as an energy vector for hydrogen storage, transport and utilization, which links to usage of renewable energies. However, efficient catalysts for ammonia decomposition and their underlying mechanism yet remain obscure. …
View article: Exceptional Hydrogen Diffusion Rate over Ru Nanoparticle‐Doped Polar MgO(111) Surface
Exceptional Hydrogen Diffusion Rate over Ru Nanoparticle‐Doped Polar MgO(111) Surface Open
Hydrogen (H) conductivity on oxide‐based materials is crucially important in fuel cells and related catalysis. Here, this work measures the diffusion rate of H generated from Ru nanoparticles loaded on polar MgO(111) facet particles under …
View article: Energy Decarbonization via Green H<sub>2</sub> or NH<sub>3</sub>?
Energy Decarbonization via Green H<sub>2</sub> or NH<sub>3</sub>? Open
Due to the global need to decarbonize, it is increasingly clear that we are heading toward a new era of massive renewable energy generation and utilization to substitute fossil fuels. However, pragmatic means for renewable energy storage, …
View article: Atomic‐Precision Tailoring of Au–Ag Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Direct Electrochemical‐Plasmonic Hydrogen Evolution in Water Splitting
Atomic‐Precision Tailoring of Au–Ag Core–Shell Composite Nanoparticles for Direct Electrochemical‐Plasmonic Hydrogen Evolution in Water Splitting Open
Traditionally, bandgap materials are a prerequisite to photocatalysis since they can harness a reasonable range of the solar spectrum. However, the high impedance across the bandgap and the low concentration of intrinsic charge carriers ha…
View article: Fe on molecular-layer MoS2 as inorganic Fe-S2-Mo motifs for light-driven nitrogen fixation to ammonia at elevated temperatures
Fe on molecular-layer MoS2 as inorganic Fe-S2-Mo motifs for light-driven nitrogen fixation to ammonia at elevated temperatures Open
Current industrial production of ammonia from the Haber-Bosch process and its transport concomitantly produces a large quantity of CO2. Herein, we successfully synthesize inorganic-structure-based catalysts with [Fe-S2-Mo] motifs with a co…
View article: Structural insight into [Fe–S<sub>2</sub>–Mo] motif in electrochemical reduction of N<sub>2</sub> over Fe<sub>1</sub>-supported molecular MoS<sub>2</sub>
Structural insight into [Fe–S<sub>2</sub>–Mo] motif in electrochemical reduction of N<sub>2</sub> over Fe<sub>1</sub>-supported molecular MoS<sub>2</sub> Open
A nitrogenase-inspired inorganic-based chalcogenide system containing [Fe–S 2 –Mo] motif is developed for the efficient electrochemical conversion of N 2 to NH 3 .
View article: Cooperative catalytically active sites for methanol activation by single metal ion-doped H-ZSM-5
Cooperative catalytically active sites for methanol activation by single metal ion-doped H-ZSM-5 Open
Diffraction studies and DFT calculations show the formation of frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) over M-ZSM-5 for heterolytic cleavage of CH 3 OH.
View article: Transition metal atom doping of the basal plane of MoS<sub>2</sub> monolayer nanosheets for electrochemical hydrogen evolution
Transition metal atom doping of the basal plane of MoS<sub>2</sub> monolayer nanosheets for electrochemical hydrogen evolution Open
A Co atom enhances the HER activity of monolayer MoS2 whereas a Ni atom exhibits the opposite effect on the same basal site.